Robert Barry

Robert Barry has had a passion for photography since the late nineteen sixties when he purchased a camera to photograph his first-born daughter. He quickly found that just making family images did not satisfy his creative photographic appetite. From these early days his interests and pursuits have mostly been in the photo treasure hunt. He loves to wander in and around cities investigating and capturing images about how we build and decorate our environments. He finds beauty in things mundane to the majestic. Since then I have taken many classes through my school career and have learned to work with many different mediums: oil paint, watercolor, acrylic, clay, ink. and have experimented on quite a few surfaces. My favorite and most recent medium is water color and chinese ink on wood. I have created a technique I call 'ink drips' since it resembles the path ink (or water or any other kind of spilled/dripping liquid for that matter) might take when slowly dripping down an incline. In displaying this technique in my studio at Distinction Gallery in Escondido, I have found it to be one of the favorites of my audience as well. I still find myself, however, continuing to try new techniques and mediums as well as going back to the old dusty styles I put down long ago and finding a way to revamp it and make it my own. San Francisco State University is his alma mater. He received his Masters in Art in 1978. Robert is currently a Professor of Photography at Palomar College in San Marcos, California. His teaching career started there in 1989. His Photographs have been exhibited and collected internationally.